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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2008-04-23 11:47:15 +0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-04-23 21:25:35 -0400 |
| commit | 1ebebea8e844d01c80b93b8ee4d696ee7c0cbc27 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e246a1aa36afcd735940a07253124b138e0ed03 /net/core/iovec.c | |
| parent | d1d8f44a4e3c730984283c0bf4b3458e3a88c15a (diff) | |
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mac80211: Fix race between ieee80211_rx_bss_put and lookup routines.
The put routine first decrements the users counter and then
(if it is zero) locks the sta_bss_lock and removes one from
the list and the hash.
Thus, any of ieee80211_sta_config_auth, ieee80211_rx_bss_get
or ieee80211_rx_mesh_bss_get can race with it by finding a
bss that is about to get kfree-ed.
Using atomic_dec_and_lock in ieee80211_rx_bss_put takes care
of this race.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/iovec.c')
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